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Homer y Cristina Ladas: Source: https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Figures_of_Argentine_tango<\/p><\/div>\n

Introduction<\/h4>\n

The sandwich is a basic step in tango – it is taught among the first figures on courses, soon after the cross-lead<\/a> and the forward and backward ochos. It is called mordida, sanguche or sanguchito in spanish, and, not surprisingly English simply calls it sandwich.<\/p>\n

Sandwich position<\/h4>\n

The name comes from the position of the feet. As soon as you understand why, you have half-learnt the step! As you can see on the image, the woman’s foot is in between the two feet of the leader, forming a sandwich. The position can be changed, in this case the leader’s foot is positioned in between the two feet of the woman.<\/p>\n

Sandwich step<\/h4>\n

Most places teach the sandwich-step in a similar way. You will probably recognize your school’s way on one of the following videos. Normally it is prepared with a backward ocho. However, what happens after the ocho differs in the videos, so it is worth checking them all out! Of course there are endless possibilities of the sandwich step, and to avoid getting lost in them, I only selected three videos.<\/p>\n

Video 1. Osvaldo Zotto & Mora Godoy<\/h3>\n

This video explains two types of the sandwich step: the sanguchito simple and sanguchito traspie. The only difference between the two is that the second version adds an extra side step before the backward ocho. Unfortunately the voice and image are not in line on the english version, however, the spanish dub is perfect, check it out here<\/a><\/p>\n